Landing:

Mission Highlights:

Three communications satellites, all attached to Payload Assist
Module-D (PAM-D) motors, were deployed: MORE LOS-A, for Mexico;
ARABSAT-A, for Arab Satellite Communications Organization; and
TELSTAR-3D, for AT&T. Also flown: deployable/retrievable Shuttle
Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy (SPARTAN-1); six
Get Away Special canisters; Strategic Defense Initiative experiment
called the High Precision Tracking Experiment (HPTE); a materials
processing furnace called Automated Directional Solidification Furnace
(ADSF); and two French biomedical experiments.